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Direct linkRickards, Nicholas G. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2023
Through the use of horror movie motifs like zombies and mad doctors, "The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" (2015) stands in drastic contrast to other young adult dystopian properties like "The Hunger Games" (2012), for example, in that "Scorch Trials" uses allegory as a means to comment on neoliberalism, alienated…
Descriptors: Films, Popular Culture, Young Adults, Social Systems
